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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I sometimes feel the same knee-jerk reaction when I see these types of posts, OP, but I also ask myself, what is an appropriate use of "social" media? What are people allowed to share? [/quote]

Before "social media", only "Society" people issued public press releases about their social life. Everyone else shared information with people who had a relevant interest. [/quote]

Even the most oblivious of us can probably agree the landscape has changed since the society pages. My point to people who get upset about these things is that I don't believe the burden is on the sharer to edit their content. Social media can be a wasteland of triggers and distress, and you'll never be able to control what people put out there (online or elsewhere); that's a pretty key lesson to learn. I don't share much of anything because I was taught in elementary school that you don't talk about the birthday party with your classmates who weren't invited. You can, however, limit your follows to people who share relevant interests, you can hide people whose updates you don't wish to see, you can unfriend/unfollow, or you can choose to stay offline. You can do all this without asking or expecting anything of anyone else.[/quote]

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